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Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece
ISBN: HB: 9780300226058, Yale University Press, July 2017
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 63 colour illus., 104 black&white illus.
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings. Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often...
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Anatomy of Malice The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
ISBN: PB: 9780300226935, Yale University Press, July 2017
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
<p>When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using ex...
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£16,99
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Sunday Pierre Droulers Choreographer
ISBN: PB: 9780300230260, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2017
432 pp., 31x21.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
This book celebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from t...
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£25,00
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Forgetting Myths, Perils and Compensations
ISBN: PB: 9780300226423, Yale University Press, May 2017
280 pp., 21.6x14 cm
In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory, renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the "miracle" of forgetting. Far from be...
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£12,99
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New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...
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Little History of the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...
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£14,99
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Welcome to the Microbiome Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You
ISBN: PB: 9780300223507, Yale University Press, February 2017
264 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 51 black&white illus.
<p>Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthy... or make us sick Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Proj...
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£15,99
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Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument
ISBN: HB: 9780300221299, Yale University Press, January 2017
168 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 43 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.
A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a mu...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ISBN: PB: 9780300204711, Yale University Press, January 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in pre-...
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£7,99
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Vincent van Gogh Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780300222845, Yale University Press, November 2016
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked. This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1...
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